[SlugBug] Pine/IMAP

[Bruno Postle]

On Sat 06-Dec-2003 at 10:13:41 +0000, pault wrote:
> Quoting pault <pault at burngreave.net>:
> 
> > have just started using pine and imap for one of my email accounts and would
> > appreciate a little guidance on pine config and imap theory. anyone up for
> > it?
> 
> second call...

I don't use pine either, though I use IMAP a lot with mutt (I'm not
recommending mutt here, pine has better IMAP support).  If you have
a choice, cone is a clone of pine, but it doesn't suck as much:

   http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/index.html

What is it you don't understand about IMAP?

IMAP is not like POP3, the idea with POP3 is that you get a single
mailbox at the server where all your incoming mail arrives, you are
then supposed to download everything to your local machine, delete
it from the server and disconnect.

With IMAP, you get the incoming mailbox, but you keep the mail on
the server and read it in-place - You have to be connected all the
while.

The neat thing about IMAP is that you can create folders and move
your mail around just like a local mail-store, but since it is on a
central server you can access it from any location with any mail
client.

-- 
Bruno